WAYLAND, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 6, 2009 —
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) invites participation in an
OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Summit to be held June 24, 2009 at the
Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards (
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/markets-technologies/swe)
enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers and sensor
data repositories discoverable, accessible and useable via the Web.
These standards are finding wide use in ocean observation, homeland
security, and other domains where Web access to sensors is important.

“It’s rewarding to see how developers are using these interoperability
interfaces and metadata encodings to enable integration of heterogeneous
sensor webs,” explained Dr. Mike Botts, chair of the SWE Working Group
of the OGC Technical Committee. “They are creating applications,
platforms, and products involving Web-connected devices such as flood
gauges, air pollution monitors, stress gauges on bridges, mobile heart
monitors, Webcams, and robots as well as space and airborne earth
imaging devices.”

“Sensors of all kinds are improving and becoming less expensive, and
more and more sensor systems are being connected to the Web,” said Mark
Reichardt, the OGC’s president and CEO. “We are holding this summit to
show the comprehensive framework of open Web standards our members have
developed to describe, publish, and access sensors and sensor data.”

The OGC is an international consortium of more than 380 companies,
government agencies, research organizations, and universities
participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available
geospatial standards. OpenGIS Standards support interoperable solutions
that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and
mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make
geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any
application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website
at
http://www.opengeospatial.org.